Governor’s 75th I-Day message to Nagaland

August 15, 2021 82 Views No Comment

DIMAPUR, AUG 14 (NPN) : Nagaland Governor R.N. Ravi, while greeting the people of Nagaland on the eve of the 75th Indian Independence Day, urged upon them to build a healthy ecosystem for investment and entrepreneurship.

In order to make this happen, Ravi said “We must eliminate illicit gangs and guns and institutionalised corruption from the State.”

He also unambiguously reaffirmed that “Nagaland has been and shall ever remain an integral part of India.”

In his message, Ravi also dedicated a substantial space on the destructive impact of British ‘divide-and-rule policy’ and colonisation over Naga economy, way of life and relations with their neighbours.

Ravi asked the people of Nagaland to preserve their unique cultural identity, saying “we must break the colonial miasma and march in step with the rest of the country in our journey of shared prosperity.”

In the unfolding epochal story of India’s resurgence, Ravi asserted that Nagaland cannot be left behind. “Our State is rich in natural and human resources. Being at the gateway of the South-East Asia offers us unique geo-economic opportunities,” he said.

In order to make a glorious Nagaland, Ravi stressed on the need to prioritise developing the most precious human resource, which unfortunately had suffered a relative decline in recent decades.

He further emphasised on building a robust and equitable health and education sectors to ensure healthy, skilled and well educated citizenry. “We have to ensure that the current low rate of enrolment in schools and unacceptably high rate of drop outs is reduced to zero,” Ravi said.

Ravi also called for building modern connectivity infrastructures– both physical and digital.

“I am happy to inform you that some 1800 KMs of National Highways in the State are under construction and the State capital Kohima will be connected by Railway in the next two years,” he said.

On the occasion, Ravi also paid homage to the countless heroes and martyrs whose sacrifices and sufferings brought Independence.

He also expressed heartfelt gratitude to the doctors, nurses and all the members of health services, and other frontline workers for risking their lives and relentlessly fighting the extraordinary menace of Covid-19 pandemic and saving precious human lives.

He also said that the grass root organisations and civil societies including the Church and other faith based organisations had rendered commendable services.

“The unimaginable speed and ferocity of the second wave has taught us some valuable lessons and we are better prepared today,” Ravi said.

The governor also reminded that vaccine, which has been scientifically established, was the only safeguard against severity of Covid-19 as of now. It has been amply proven that a vaccinated person is less likely to be infected and even if infected much less likely to need hospitalization, he said.

Stating that the country and the world was changing at an unprecedented fast pace, Ravi said: “Your march into the future has to keep pace with the change around and it cannot be by looking into the rear-view mirror.”

“A bright and beautiful dawn is beckoning at the horizon. We must welcome it with our unwavering commitment to the rule of law, hard work, truth, transparency and justice,” the governor said in his message to the people of the State.

Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com/governor-s-75th-i-day-message-to-nagaland/238295.html